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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is steady throughout The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
(a) All of these.
(b) The rhyming scheme.
(c) The beat.
(d) The intent.

2. What advice does Nash give in A Word to Husbands?
(a) To admit when they are wrong.
(b) To thank the wife for everything.
(c) To never cheat.
(d) To sleep well.

3. What is Valentine rhymed with in A Very Valentine?
(a) Mine.
(b) All of these.
(c) Divine.
(d) Fine.

4. What is the deepest secret shared in I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)?
(a) He knows she is unfaithful.
(b) He is gay.
(c) He is in love.
(d) He has been unfaithful.

5. How long is Emily Dickinson's poem about breaking up?
(a) 3 stanzas.
(b) 2 stanzas.
(c) 10 words.
(d) 1 page.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, the countess says she was wounded with __________.

2. Where does the man in June Light hear his lover's voice from?

3. What kind of mill does the woman in I Want You Woman Up North to Know work at?

4. What is being written to in Letters from Storyville?

5. What color is the flower in The Weather Cock Points South?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Worked Late on a Tuesday Night about?

2. What is To Paula in Late Spring about?

3. What is Code Poem for the French Resistance about?

4. What is Youth about?

5. What is At the Café about?

6. What is The Age of Great Vocations about?

7. What is Letter from My Wife about?

8. What is After Making Love We Hear Footstep about?

9. What is Come to the Orchard in Spring?

10. What is Well I Have Lost You about?

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